The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-22
A HORRIBLE DEATH.
A Family Of Husband, Wife and
Four Children
Burned to Death in their Home at
New Orleans.
A Damaging Blaze in a Chicago Can
dy Factory.
Key West all Excitement at the Pres
encs of Spanish Ram.

! encs of Spanish Ram.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 16.-At 1873
: o'clock this morning an explosion
{ occurred in the grocery store o.
, DOminick NJ. Mesina at the corner Of
+ Eugene and Dauphin streets and 8
moment later the entire building Was
on fire and all escape from the upper
stories where the Mesina family re-
side was cut off. The fire had been
| burning for some time before the ex.
ploSiOn, which was doubtless caused by
| the ignition Of powder which Mesina
kept for sale. When the firemen
reached the scene the voices of Me-
} sina's family could be heard mingling
with the roaring and cracking of the
flames, crying for help. Every effort
of the iiremen to rescue the unfortu-
nate inmates Of the burning building
failed and the entire family, consist
ing of Messina, his wife and their four
little children, were burned to death.
KILLED IN A COLLISION.
MEMPHIS, Sept. 16.-A collision oc-
CURED late last night on the Iron
Mountain railroad north Of Nettleton,
between two construction trains, which
resulted in the killing of three Nettle-
ton men and severely injuring seven
|
wrecked.
RIDDLED THE OLD MAN.
| CUTHBERT, Ga, Sept. 16.-A few
days ago Ransom Mollard, young ne
| gro, was arrested upon charge of
stealing cotton seed. In quarrel be-
| tween the complainant and Mollard the
latter was slightly wounded. A trial
of the case resulted in compromise,
the negro being released. Yesterday
party of masked men went to the house
of Adam Mollard, father of Ransom,
but the family had had an inkling of
| the approach of the mob and fed. the
old man denied that the boy was there
and the mob began firing and the old
man was instanstly killed by load of
buckshot in the breast, and negro wo-
man in the cabin was shot in the leg.
Two of the boys who had been hiding
near by started on run for the road
and a number of shots were fired at
them. Late last evening one came
back wounded and the other is said to
| have died in the woods.
| SERIOUS BLAZE.
| CHICAGO, Sept. I6.-The extensive
candy factory OF Milton e. Page s. Co.,
numbers 211 and 2l3 Lake street, was
| totally destroyed by fire last night.
The flames spread to buildings adiOin-
! ing Oh either side, one of which is oc-
cupied by j. A. Fay & Co., of which
Mayor Roche is partner and manager,
doing considerable damage. The fire
was discovered few minutes after IL
o'clock and in a few minutes the rear
of the whole interior seemed to be
ablaZe. The fire gained rapidly, leaping
out of every window, front and rear.
Bursting through the roof, the fire soon
spread to the adjacent building. the
lower floor of which is occupied by j.
A. Fay s. Co., and the upper floors by
Page & Co. Next it ate its way into
building numbers 215, 217 and 219, Oc-
cupied by the Pennsylvania Tube
works, igniting the roof first and run
ming down to the top floor. A tall flag
staff, surmounted with huge eagle,
ran up from the roof of Pages build
| ing and was soon burned away, drop
ping across the roof of the building, the
eagle dropping with great force and
injuring several firemen. Lieutenant
Case, together with Frank Walters
and Con Sullivan, were standing on
| ladder nearly up to the fourth story of
the building when the eagle fell. 1t
| struck Walters on the head, knocking
him off the ladder and against Case,
who was also carried off his feet, and
| they bumped down the ladder to the
sidewalk, taking with them Sullivan,
who stood lower down. The origin of
AOSO
about SAC, 900.
ON A KIDNAPPING EXPEDITION.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-A Key West,
Florida, special says: This city Is all
agog. A Spanish ram is anchored in
the harbor and another is cruising up
and down the keys outside. There is
| a rumOr which has gained considerable
credence throughout the city that they
are to be used in kidnapping two
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be implicated in the latest flibustering
movement. The Spanish government
has a few well paid spies here and
successful kidnapping expedition
would not be at all difficult. So far as
defense is concerned, the town has
| none. There is not even militia
company on the island. The import
ance attached to the recent fillibuster-
ing expedition is shown by the activity
of the Spanish government. The
latest news from Cuba has it that a
force of filibusters landed near Matan-
zas, numbering fifty-Seven men, and
was led by Manuel Garcia, and that he
was killed in a skirmish with troops
and civil guards. This information is
discredited in some quarters and moth
ing official can be learned. Gunboats
lave been stationed along the coast.
The seventeen men supposed to belong
to the filibustering force have been
captured in the jurisdiction of Ma
tanzas and will be tried by court mar
tial in the city of Matanzas.
KICKED TO DEATH.
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 16.-On Sunday
night Thomas Burke, well to do cltl-
zen, 66 years of age, went home partial
| IL intoxicated and began raising dis
men, named S. w. Nichols, Samuel
Patterson and Edward Fitzgerald, were
summoned to the house and arrested
him. A short distance away his wife
and several neiChbOrS heard him cry:
ssOh God, God, I'm killed" When he
entered the station house in charge OF
the officers one of them gave him VIC
| lent kick. He was in pitiable condi-
| ton. and said to the Captain in charge:
1'They kicked me all the way here: I'm
killed" Without any examination he
/ was put into a cell and on Monday sent
| to the workhouse. There it
was soon discovered that he
was suffering from frightful injuries.
Three physicians who were called said
that he was suffering from rupture,
resulting from powerful blow or KICK
upon the lower part of the pelvis. He
1 was removed to his home, but contin-
| ued to grow worse. was seized with
paroxysms, and died in terrible agony
| at 10 O'Clock last night. He was con-
/ SciOuS most OF the time, ana repeatedly
said that the policemen had kicked him
all the way to the station house. The
coroner held an inquest to-day, and
this evening ordered the arrest of
| Peterson for the murder. The dead
man left an estate of S25, COO TO his
family.
THE HADDoCK MURDER TRIAL.
Sioux CITY, Iowa, Sept. 16.-The
entire day in the Haddock case was oc-
cupied by arguments by counsel.
Henry J. Taylor, for the state, spoke
1 until IL a. m, after which Judge PEN
dleton spoke until adjournment. The
case will probably be submitted to the
Jury tomorrow afternoon.
THE MISSING AMETHYST.
4 NEW BEDFORD. Mass, Sept. 16.-Ad-
! | vices received from San Francisco state
that the fate of the missing whaleI
| Amethyst is settled. The mate of the
sealing schooner Angel Dolly, which
arrived in San Francisco, reports thai
while cruising near Castle Rock. 3